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Multibrowse: Open multiple full-screen browser windows across a multiple monitor setup

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Multibrowse: Multi-Monitor Kiosk Mode

Utility to open several full-screen browser windows onto multiple monitor setups.

Browser is currently set to Google Chrome, but can be adapted to use any browser.

Supported platforms: Windows(7/8/10)/Linux/MacOS(x86/arm64)

Installation

Installing with a package manager is recommended.

Chocolatey

choco install multibrowse

Manual Installation

Binaries can be found on the releases page. To build yourself, see below.

Additional Requirements (Linux)

On linux, xrandr is used to find display configuration and must be available on PATH.

To install:

  • Install with Apt: apt install lxrandr
  • Install with Pacman: pacman -S xorg-xrandr

Usage

Open http://ivo.la on display 1 and http://bbc.com on display 2

multibrowse http://ivo.la http://bbc.com

Open http://ivo.la on display 1 and http://bbc.com on display 3

multibrowse http://ivo.la - http://bbc.com

To exit windows opened in fullscreen, use:

  • Mac: ⌘-Q
  • Windows/Linux: Alt-F4

Display Order

Displays are ordered according to their x/y position from left to right, then top to bottom. Top-left display is always display #1.

Additional Options

Additional CLI options passed to the multibrowse binary will be delegated to the browser instance. Check out the wiki page for common options.

Development

Requirements

  • Rust

Running

cargo run

Building

cargo build --release

License

MIT